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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12703	The high vvay to Heaven by the cleare light of the Gospell cleansed of a number of most dangerous stumbling stones thereinto throwen by Bellarmine and others In a treatise made vpon the 37. 38. and 39. verses of the 7. of Iohn: wherein is so handled the most sweete and comfortable doctrine of the true vnion and communication of Christ and his Church, and the contrarie is so confuted, as that not onely thereby also summarilie and briefly, and yet plainly all men may learne rightly to receiue the sacrament of Christs blessed bodie and blood, but also how to beleeue and to liue to saluation. And therefore entitled The highway to Heauen. By Thomas Sparke Doctor of Diuinitie.	Sparke, Thomas, 1548-1616.	1597 (1597)	STC 23021; ESTC S102434	161,682	384

THE HIGH VVAY TO HEAVEN BY the cleare light of the Gospell cleansed of a number of most dangerous stumbling stones thereinto throwen by Bellarmine and others IN A Treatise made vpon the 37.38 and 39. verses of the 7. of Iohn wherein is so handled the most sweete and comfortable doctrine of the true vnion and communion of Christ and his Church and the contrarie is so confuted as that not onely thereby also summarilie and briefly and yet plainly all men may learne rightly to receiue the sacrament of Christs blessed bodie and blood but also how to beleeue and to liue to saluation And therefore entitled The high way to Heauen By Thomas Sparke Doctor of Diuinitie Printed by R. R. for Robert Dexter 1597. To the Right Honourable and most reuerend Father the Lord Archbishop of Canterburie Primate of all England and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Councell his verie good Lord Thomas Sparke wisheth all health happinesse and prosperitie to his owne heartes good contentation and comfort MAnie and sundrie fauours and kindnesses Right Honorable and right reuerende in the Lord for these twentie yeares space that I haue knowne yow receiued at your Graces hands haue alwaies made me not onely to loue and reuerence yow but alsoe to thinke my selfe vnfainedly soe much bounde and beholden vnto your Grace as that I haue a long time beene of this minde that it is not sufficient to discharge me of vnthankfulnesse by bare wordes though neuer so ful of kindnesse thankefulnesse both in your absence and presence to testifie the same whereof yet euer since I first knew you I haue beene carefull and mindefull and therefore I haue long agoe resolued my selfe hauing no better meanes to doe it by by dedicating some part of my poore labours vnto you to giue you and all others to whom the sight thereof shall come some publike and assured testimonie of my duetifull and thankefull heart towardes you Whereupon hauing at the earnest and importunate sute and request of diuers of my worshipfull and good friendes not long since committed to writing the Treatise following which in effect they first heard me from point to point in this manner deliuer vnto them in certeine sermons I haue now thought it good in this sort somewhat enlarged to publish it the better to satisfie their desires and to the end aforesaid I haue made bolde to dedicate the same vnto your Grace beseeching you to accept therof rather according to the minde of the offerer which I protest vnto you is full of loue and reuerence towardes you than to the simplicitie meanesse of the thing it selfe which I must needes confesse in respect of the handling is much vnworthie of such an Honourable patrone as your selfe is As for the matter it is I am perswaded answerable to the title that I haue giuen it which is The high way to Heauen For therin first is shewed howe the lawe is our schoolemaister to Christ by causing vs to knowe our sinnes and to feele the weight and burthen thereof to make vs wearie of the same and therefore to hunger and thirst after him and then what Christ is in person and office and how he is to be apprehended and fed on to saluation by a true and liuely saith in him is largely plainlie declared and lastly also heerein such as are and haue beene first duely throwen downe by the lawe and after truelie raised vp againe by the Gospel in Christ are taught how they are to liue and spend the rest of their daies in holinesse and righteousnesse Which I am sure is the olde ancient beaten waie throughout all the whole course of the olde and new Testament and in all sound antiquitie that the saints and seruantes of God haue taken to be the onelie saife and sure wace wherby they haue sought to come to the kingdom of heauen Your Grace therfore being one as I fullie perswade my selfe you are that seeke to come thither by this onelie waie and therefore one also that is verie desirous that all others should walke thitherwards in an eauen and streight course therunto in respect of the matter therein handled my good hope is you will not be ashamed or thinke much at all that it seeketh thus to come abroad vnder your countenance protection For though the waie be neuer so well knowne alreadie and be beaten and trode out by manie before this and that perhaps more exactly and substantially than it is herein in by me yet seeing manie are still to go this same way all cannot hit of the same guids still Sathan wil be busie by his complices eyther to keepe men frō finding it or by one sleight or other to turne them out of it I trust that after so manie that haue gone before me in guiding men into and keeping them in this way this my profered seruice to that end may will bee yet profitable vnto many Now these 24. years at the least it hath pleased the Lord to vse my poore ministrie and that his name be blessed for it in great peace quietnesse yet I haue therin alwaies bene of this mind and am will be stil not to esteeme or know anie thing but euen this way through Iesus Christ and him crucified 1. Cor. 2.2 And sure I am I find and I perswade my selfe I shall still though I cōtinued therin twise as long more this to be a matter so necessarie and of that importance beyond all other to be insisted in and dwelt vpon that I should neuer haue either leasure or pleasure to trouble eyther presse or pulpit with any thing without the verie bondes and strict limites hereof For alas euery where yea euen where most paines hath bene taken and yet is by catechising of conference with the people yea by view of their liues there is eyther such grosse ignorance heereof or erring or halting heerein to be found seene amongst thē that if all the ministers of England had the tongues both of men and Angels they should find work inough throughlie to employ themselues in onelie about the reformation heereof I would to God therfore that all controuersies wherof men may be ignorant without danger either of not finding or of not leasing this heauenly way might either be kept and reserued onely to brotherly and friendlie conferences among the godlie learned or else that for euer they might be faire dead and buried amongst vs and that so that all of vs as one man with one heart and with one mind might would ioyne all our forces together to leade men aright into this waie and to keepe them on streight in the same what subtiltie and cunning soeuer Sathan and his instrumentes should at anie time vse to the contrarie For we may be sure so that he any way can get men to misse or to lease this waie whiles we are busying our owne heades and the peoples with other matters of farre lesse importance